What SIFTS Means
SIFTS is a form of SIFT, which means:
- verb: move as if through a sieve“The soldiers sifted through the woods”
- verb: separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements“sift the flour”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SIFTS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 I1 F4 T1 S1.
Anagrams of SIFTS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SIFTS
18 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (5)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (6)
Longer Words Containing SIFTS
SIFTS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.